RELAXATION

So as you can tell I've not been in the best of moods the last few days. I'm feeling a little better today. We got our federal taxes back yesterday, which was GREAT! We needed it! We paid off a few things. We are still planning to meet with a financial counselor and do a debt consolidation soon.

JD called in sick on Thursday because he had a really bad headache, then took Friday off too. It was really nice to spend some time with him and just RELAX. I think we both needed it. We have been watching the Office on Netflix, which you can watch instantly. That has been fun to just sit and laugh together. We just finished series 3 last night at 3 in the morning. For those of you who know us really well, we LOVE our sleep. We love to stay up late and sleep in. That is harder to do with kids, but we have taken turns. Thursday I got up with the kids and JD slept until noon. Yesterday, he got up with the kids while I slept until noon.

We are having Kadia and Kadiatou over tonight, possibly their brother Obie too. It was their 18th birthday on Thursday. If you haven't heard me talk about them before they use to live in our branch. They still come to a lot of our youth activities even though they are not in our boundaries anymore. They have quite a story that I will have to share with you another time with their permission. They are great kids and we are PROUD of them. Kadia has accepted a FULL ride scholarship to a school in Boston. Kadiatou is still in the proces sof applying and we are hoping she gets a scholarship somewhere too! Obie just turned 16 two weeks ago.

Living here in NY has really opened my eyes to see how some people live. I am so grateful for my family and upbringing! I'm so lucky that I have a family that took care of me and loved me! Aynway, enough of my babbling today.